Archive for October, 2006
The Now Revival – WIND AND FIRE
By Janee Hawks
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
The early church of Acts experienced a transitional revival as God was moving from one era to another. They were ushering in the church age. A "rushing mighty wind and tongues as of fire" came upon each one of them and they prophesied with the fire of God. They encountered the demonstration of the gospel of Jesus Christ upon the whole known world at that time in history. They were in the fires of revival as persecution fell and as they were in great distresses for the gospel's sake. They were led by the Spirit of God in miraculous ways until they became known as those who turned the world upside down.
Today we, as believers, are faced once again with a charge from God to reach the whole known world with the gospel before the second coming of the Lord. We are in transition again. God is moving His people out of the church age into the Kingdom age where He will reign on the earth again. We the church are to reign with Him. The Kingdom that is coming must come first into the hearts and lives of His church. He must put the heart of the Kingdom of God into the heart of the body of Christ who must become a victorious army of disciples and His prepared bride dressed in the wedding garment. This will take a "revival of wind and fire." The wind of God will blow upon this world bringing change but it must first blow on the believers. The Kingdom of God is all that will be left alive. The fire of God will burn in this world to purify and renovate, but it must first begin at the household of God. There must be no more mixture, but rather pure, unadulterated lives that are the living epistles of Christ on the earth. The purity of the Kingdom of God is all that will stand the fires of loving judgment.
The wind and the fire of the Spirit of God would now live with all believers and in all believers to do the works of God on the earth. Jesus said if I go away I will send another ….the another was the Spirit of God. He is the wind and the fire. Jesus told Nicodemus in John 3 that the way of the Spirit is like the wind. You cannot see it but you can see the results of it. You cannot grasp the wind, you cannot move the wind. It is hard to know the way of the wind, so it is hard to know the ways of the Lord. You must let the wind move you as you surrender to it. The wind of the Spirit will bring new birth, new life, new creations, new directions and changes of destiny. It will accelerate you beyond yourself and into the supernatural. Set your sails in Christ alone, while you anchor your soul in the secret place of passionate love for His person and let the wind of the Spirit take you into the unknown places of your Divine destiny.
The fire of God is the revelation of the word of God that burns within your heart and life. It is not head knowledge, but rather the word that has been tested and tried in your life to actually become alive in you, a living word. It is sealed through the "the trial of your faith". The word is tried in the fires of God to become more precious than gold within you. "Is not my word like a fire says the Lord." (Jeremiah 23:29 ) When Jesus spoke to the disciples on the road of Emmaus after His resurrection it burned like fire within them. The eyes of the Lord that are always upon us are a flame of fire. The word of the Lord in your mouth and in your heart is as fire. When the Lord moves in our lives to make us ready for His coming He is like a refiners fire that purifies. (Malachi 3:2-3) Jesus said to the church "buy from me gold refined in the fire that you may be rich." (Rev.3:18) We must surrender to the fire of God and let it burn within us. We must go toward the fire. We must move into the fire and become a part of the fire as a moth to the flame. Then we will be equipped with the substance (evidence) of our faith like the gold that is the substance of heaven. We must become fire starters that will burn with the love and passion of the Lord for others . The lost and the wounded will come to warm and heal and find life in the fire we produce. Revival fires of transition into the Kingdom of our Lord will burn in our world again. Don't resist it, or be full of fear, but just let yourself fall into His heart that burns with the fire of His love for you.
Ezekiel, a prophet of God lived and prophesied in a time in history when God was transitioning his people out of the days of the Kings. They were entering a day of captivity where God would purge them from their idolatry and would be spread them throughout the whole world. God would begin to prepare the world for the first coming of Christ to the earth. The Word of God Himself, the creator of all, would become flesh and dwell among us. The fires and great wind of judgment blew from the north through Babylon. Angels stood at the four corner of the earth releasing the fires and the winds in the realm of the spirit as they begin to manifest in the natural on the earth. Ezekiel saw the throne room presence of the Lord coming with wind and fire. God's people were entering a revival of wind and fire which would cause them to return to God in repentance and worship.
Today the same glory presence and power of God is coming to the earth in a measure unseen in any time in history. It will come with a fiery fury and mighty wind that will bring the coming of our King and Lord. The storm is coming. In the midst of the shaking and renovation of the earth the church of Jesus Christ that has kept communion with the Spirit of God and allowed Him to move in their lives will be wind and fire walking in the midst proclaiming His love and power.
" Then I looked, and behold, a whirlwind was coming out of the north, a great cloud with raging fire engulfing itself; and brightness was all around it and radiating out of its midst like the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire." Ezekiel 1:4
John the Baptist prepared the way for the Kingdom of God and made the transfer from the old Testament priesthood to the Lamb of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. He saw the coming revival that would totally change the world in "Fire and Wind". The church now must see the coming age, as it moves in with wind and fire from the arm of the Lord. It is the age of the greater house of glory, the works of Christ in His body on the earth.
"John answered, saying to all, "I indeed baptize you with water; but One mightier than I is coming, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather the wheat into His barn; but the chaff He will burn with unquenchable fire." Luke 3:16-17
The Lord Jesus longs to pour out on you a fresh new baptism of the Holy Spirit and the Word. It is the wind and the fire together for the last great revival. He longs to submerge you now in a new place to encounter the Spirit winds of acceleration. He longs for you to experience a new passion of intensity in the fire of the Spirit. When we are submerged into the fire of God and sent out with the wind of the Spirit the genuine revival will be unstoppable as it rockets the earth at an unbelievable speed. The world will see the power of God .The final works of the church will pass through the fire as gold unto His praise and glory .
Pray with me now. "Lord I do not want nice concepts of truth in my head to live on. I want to encounter and experience you in your glorious presence and magnificent power. I want to see you move in the miraculous; the supernatural in me and through me for your glory. I surrender now to your Spirit fire and Your Spirit wind……….Oh Jesus we hunger and thirst, come now to all who hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying and submerge us into this "revival wind and fire." In Jesus mighty name."
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